The anti-harassment group is supported by several established organizations including Harassmap and the Egyptian Initative for Personal Rights (EIPR). Volunteers provide medical, legal, and emotional support for victims of sexual harassment in addition to “safe houses” to help women recover from assault.

“Some of the [victims] were groped while some women were fingered by large groups of mobs from the front and behind. They were bitten in all parts of their bodies, and all their belongings were stolen,” the OpAntiSH spokesperson said.

Some female members of the group were assaulted while attempting to help other women. One assaulted activist of the group has written her testimony on the group’s Facebook page.

Engy Ghozlan of Harassmap thinks there were thugs paid to harass women in Tahrir Square. “By listening to several testimonies, my personal opinion is that this is a planned attempt to scare girls from participating in protests,” she added.

In Alexandria, Aya Rady, an anchor for Sky News Arabia, was also sexually harassed.

Rady was reporting on protests near Alexandria Local Council when she was attacked by a group of men. According to a video on Masrawy online portal, a group of people sitting in a cafe nearby intervened. She was taken to the hospital suffering from bruises and a nervous breakdown.

There is a rise in the intolerance towards women worldwide. It is almost as if the so called loss of ‘genetic material’ in the Y chromosome is translating into men born with only two things in their mind – sex and violence interlaced by deep disdain for labor. Unless and until women have control over their bodies and decrease their fecundity, the stress on the Earth’s resources will continue and be expressed by constant strife. Population growth needs to be controlled.